I fell in love with Adriana Diaz first on television, then in real life.

That required getting over some intense intimidation.

Adriana is smart and beautiful. She speaks four languages,

English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin. And she is a pageant winner. She was crowned Miss New York,

USA, 2006. Adriana has spent most of her career as a correspondent for CBS News and now as the co-host

of CBS Mornings Plus. In this conversation, we get into it all, being raised by an immigrant

mom who gave her room to run, how competing in pageants prepared her for life, the year together,

but a part that strengthened her relationship with her now husband, the decision to wear her

hair natural, and reflections on the story she has told that have changed her forever.

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Hi, friend.

Hello.

Thanks for being here.

I'm so happy to be here.

You've already had a full day.

Yeah, a full day by probably unusual morning show people standards.

Yeah, we did our show.

Okay, but that's not where I want to start.

Start from the moment you wake up.

What do you do?

Well, I was up most of the night on and off because my daughter has a fever, so she was in bed with us. Okay. So, you know, like feeling her back and waking up my husband to get her Tylenol because really I couldn't will myself to do it. But the alarm started going off at four because I wanted to get up earlier today to prepare a little bit more, but I snooze until 5.5. So that didn't happen. But I left for work at 5.30. You get to work. I did the voiceover for a piece that I had on CBS Mornings at 7.30, the first two hours of the show. And then I got ready for CBS Mornings Plus, which airs from 9 to 10,

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